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Assemblymember Gail Pellerin touts 10 signed bills, highlights housing, elections and school-food funding
Summary
Assemblymember Gail Pellerin told the Monte Sereno City Council that all 10 bills she carried were signed into law and summarized measures on tenant security-deposit returns, digital-image disclosures in real-estate listings, nurse-practitioner authority for death certificates and a $10 million allocation for the Healthy School Food Pathway program.
Assemblymember Gail Pellerin (Assembly District 28) told the Monte Sereno City Council she secured passage and gubernatorial signature for 10 bills in the last session, saying, “I'm proud to announce that all 10 bills that I passed and got passed and sent to the governor were signed into law.”
Pellerin walked the council through a selection of the measures. She described AB 414, which requires landlords who accept deposits or payments electronically to return remaining security-deposit balances by the same electronic means, and AB 723, which requires digital-image disclosures and access to original unaltered real-estate photos when an advertisement has been altered. She said AB 583 will allow nurse practitioners to sign death certificates in certain circumstances to avoid administrative delays; “Nurse practitioners are often the primary providers of care for patients before and leading up to their death,” she said.
Pellerin also summarized AB 996, a voluntary early-consultation process with the Coastal Commission intended to reduce the risk of local coastal program denials, and AB 1104, which clarifies that certain small-business rooftop solar projects are not public-works projects subject to complex Department of Industrial Relations public-works requirements.
On elections, Pellerin noted AB 1072 directs the Secretary of State, in consultation with county elections officials, to adopt uniform standards allowing voters to correct mistakes on ballots. She said several other bills were technical updates to existing election and political-practices statutes.
Pellerin closed with a budget item for the area: “Despite a very disappointing budget year ... we were able to allocate $10,000,000 to the Healthy School Food Pathway Program,” she said, noting the Los Gatos Elementary School District is a host site for that program.
Why it matters: Pellerin framed the package as prioritizing affordability, consumer protection and local administrative efficiency while identifying local implementation issues — from coastal planning to school nutrition — that will require follow-up work by local governments and community groups.
